Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.
Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the security in and of information and communications technologies (OEWG)
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.
Co-founder and president of Igarapé Instituto, Ilona Szabó is one of global experts invited by the World Economic Forum to share key challenges presented today to decision-makers and leaders. In a Transformation Map, users are able to navigate through her answers and connect challenges
Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that a Ukrainian national identity does not exist
The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.
Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.
After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic risk of our time
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
It is conceivable that 2021 will be remembered as the year we reached a climate action tipping point — and not a moment too soon
Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation
The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province
Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity.
With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening climate threats and dangerously uneven Covid-19 recovery
After all, they’ve been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
The notion that warmer weather can make us more violent is not new
Robert Muggah explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdowns
At first sight, the global vaccination rollout is mesmerizing
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